LazyTrailRider

I didn’t realise >R100k is extremely high end these days. In my mind, it’s pretty much the ballpark for a relatively nice trail bike, and an entry-level-ish EB…

Nope, my bike is UDH compatible.

I reckon this is going to be what gets me to finally convert to AXS. Patiently waiting for the GX version...

Yes, you must read soos your elmboog instead. It's connected to the axle and any forces it's hit with are transferred into the axle, all reviewers say that it's been crazy solid during testing.

Whenever I complain that at 44 I'm getting too old for the tech stuff, The Plumber (the person, not his trail) just laughs at me 😉

Is R120k really the student car budget these days? We paid R105k for my wife’s Fiat 500 in 2019 (in the year she turned 40). Yes, I know vehicle prices have gone mad in the last 3 years, but fork me…

I’m very aware, but 10,000km? That wasn’t just soft compound magic at work…

This is unusual, I haven’t experienced reduced mileage with high-speed rated rubber. Mileage of 10k km means one of things: - Rubbish quality/brand tyres - You’re hooning a machine with 300kW+ I replaced the previous set of 225/40/18 W-rated Pirellis P7s on my GTI at 35k, and sold them with 40% of the tread remaining. Even the P-Zeros I had on before that (albeit 225/35/19) managed around 30k, and that’s proper supercar-capable rubber.

Just gooi an extension lead over the wall. Not joking, a have a friend who does that for his neighbour...

**** off Eskom. It remains to be seen if 3 days of rain in the middle of winter will force me to retract this, but here’s 28.6kWh (cabling still needs to be neatened up) of overkill from a financial perspective, but YOLO.

Where exactly are you based? Geography plays a *huge* role in production figures.

Every once in a while, mine uses its 6-8kW burst capacity. With these systems, the devil is in the outliers. Outliers in terms of successive rainy days, outliers in terms of local outages which prevent charging for longer than loadshedding slots, outliers in terms of unexpected usage by people who aren't aware of the limitations. My system goes over 6kW several times a month. All that needs to happen is for these appliances to be switched on at the same time by different people while the geyser (2kW) is already on: Washing machine, dishwasher, kettle, leafblower. Yes, a system sized "just large enough" will be fine 90% of the time, but it's the 10% that gets you.

Yup, unfortunately there is a massive difference in the annual sunlight graph (I posted a link a few dozen pages back) between GP and WC. To add to that, our house runs off rainwater in winter, with two submersible pumps in sumps moving water from the the garage and patio roofs to the tanks on the other side of the house. The garage one also keeps the garage from flooding during heavy downpours, and is a 1kW unit which runs pretty much non-stop for many stormy nights. I suspect I may yet max out the moerse capacity...

I’ve decided to go all in and will soon have 28.6kWh (26kWh usable) SolarMD capacity, up from the 10/8 FreedomWon I currently have. In our 2-person 160sqm household this should get us completely independent, but will have to see how it plays out in the Cape winter. In summer the current setup gets us through the night’s 400kW base load if the evening’s cooking and geyser top-up before showers is run off 2 hours of grid supply. But, sometimes it does not, like last night when I forgot the aircon on and switched it off just before going to bed. These things happen, and winter is a completely different story in the Southern Suburbs, but we shall see…

I love my eBike, but derestriction to enable motorbike speeds is not cool. Not cool at all.

Yup, many of these "low mileage" used Levos are not in fact as low mileage as they seem... I pointed this out when the dealer offered to change the setting on mine. The answer was "everyone does it" 😐

From more general business articles I've read, Spez crossed $1bn AR a few years ago already and if I remember have passed the $250m threshold in online sales already. Extrapolating my knowledge of the business owners I know who run structures in the hundreds of millions, I'd be very surprised if Mike was worth less than $100m...

T9 front and T7 rear? I run the Butcher in 2.6 and Eliminator in 2.35 on two bikes, they are excellent.

Wasn’t the entire idea with this event to introduce newbies to the concept of enduro (in terms of how it’s timed) but on super easy trails? That’s what I got from all the marketing I saw, and if I had entered I would definitely not have expected anything hardcore…

Hang on, really? Not being sarcastic, just surprised if that is actually the case in 2022!

Must be those Magura handlebars of his...

No off-tar driving at all, my current car is a princess with low-profile rubber and negligible ground clearance 😜

…or it enables you to charge fairly fast, but then overheats, resulting in damaged circuitry (we’ve had a few of these).

When I had a full-fat Levo, I used to remove the battery during long trips to reduce the leverage on the rack (which is not unsubstantial) and give me a bit of extra peace of mind. It definitely also makes it easier to lift it onto and off the rails.

👍 I’ve found over-speccing to be a must with this level of system, they are very rarely able to regularly operate at even close to full capacity without issue like the mid-to-higher-end systems can. As long as you are aware of its limitations, you’ll be fine.